- Though building Dashboards takes a bit of creativity,…there is as much a science to it as an art.…There is some key Best Practices for designing…and building Tableau Dashboards.…So, really our five key Design Principles,…you need relevant metrics.…We want to make it visual. We want to make it interactive.…We want to make it easy to use.…We always want to focus on improving it.…So, the first one, you need to pick Relevant Metrics.…At the heart of it, Dashboards are a visual tool…to help people view and interpret data.…But, we also want to make sure that our metrics matter.…This really fits in with our design process,…but it's important to get stakeholders involved,…so that we can identify the metrics to be…included in our Dashboard.…

So, we want to get our stakeholders involved early,…even before, maybe, we even start analyzing the data.…And, we want to remember if it doesn't get measured,…it doesn't get improved.…So, we only want to focus on the metrics…that we're interested in improving or taking action on.…

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10/28/2015

Explore your data in new ways with interactive dashboards in Tableau. Dashboards act like dynamic reports that can be used for in-depth data analysis or to present information to clients. In this course, Nate Makdad shows you how to create them. He shows how to build and format the worksheets that will feed your dashboard, design the dashboard itself, and add interactive parameters that allow users to customize the display. Along the way, you'll learn how to use some basic principles of visual design to make your dashboards easier to use and more visually appealing.